Burning the power bridges

Will we miss the South Bay plant?

Now that the permanent closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Generating Station has been announced, the question of the timing and advisability of the demolition of the Chula Vista South Bay Power Plant once again arises.

Are we going to lament the loss of the South Bay plant’s 700 megawatts of generating capacity when we have regional power shortages during the upcoming peak usage months?

By closing these power generating plants without having in place actual “confirmed” sources of replacement power, we might be rushing headlong into uncharted territory on the basis of little more than fear mongering and extensive lobbying of politicians by radical environmental interests.

I hope there isn’t a heavy price to be paid as we travel farther down this one way street. There will be no turning back because the bridges are being burned behind us. Keep that in mind during the next major blackout.

Charles Furr

Chula Vista

Remodel San Onofre

Why not redo (the plant) with modern technology? The insides of it are old technology, but the infrastructure (land, electrical grid, containment buildings, support buildings, etc.) are still good. Why not replace its insides with something state of the art, like fluidized bed or liquid salt reactors?